New-York tribune. [volume], July 26, 1916, Page 6, Image 6

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U. S. MAY ACT IN
INSURANCE CASE
Agents Plan to Demand
Federal Inquiry Into
Company's Affairs.
EXPECT 6,000 WILL
BE ON STRIKE SOON
Women Also Quit Work as the
Walkcut Spreads to Middle
\\ otern Cities.
There aaa far a Petlera
he insurance bu
aaaon among
Bta of the Prudentia.
| . nea at Hr;.
rday. tayraaei
8 addre.sed tha
, Mat of the
.gation, reco/nmende d
taaeh with the.: n
, |a unjnrs ar.d BBfM
for Paderal interference.
ry Lumpkin, president of tie
union, ar.d Petet J- Lang, vice-presi
Blraady have plan* under WBJ
bnng pressure to bear on the company
Ihey .aid yesterday that efforts 8
be rr.ade to bnng tne s.tuation to the
attantioa ai Stwratary cf Labor WU
and Pranh Wu.?h, former chairr .
the Industrial Keiations Comnv.stioii
Three Thousand Already Out.
About three thousand Prud.
agents are already on atrike. BCOOrd
ing to officers of the newly form.;
union, and it is beheved at their head
quartera that there will be about III
thousand ant ai *ork as a protest in
a day or two.
Keports were received yesterday, ac?
eording to President Lumpkin, that
in Wilmington, Dei.; Pittsburgn
and Reading, Penn. ? amden an.i
New Jersey towns had gone out. rwe
wome; tnkeaa aoo.i
.re it was on. iney
ra. Nellie Kellehcr, Jersey
haa been with the Prudcntial eom
aaay ? *nd, . '
...boken, who hai
been an egei
two women probably will address tl
itrikc:
Other Cities Ready.
A delegat.on of eifht men, led hy I ,
0 Pra' ,-rs- arrived
from Phiiadi Iph
information that other Pennsy
.re jroing out. lt ia also report?
ed the Btrike has spread to Detroit, and
that some of the other Middle Western
cities will join soon.
I- wai iaid at union headquarters
ve.terdav that the stnkers had re
cene.j ?B of gympathy and
offer;- of hnancial assistancc from
agents of the Johu Hancock Insurance
Companv and the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, but that the men
had not aaked for any assistancc
aaya Ompany Will Vield.
George F. Prown, a member of the
executive board ar.d one ef the organ
uers of tne union, prophesied yester?
day that the company wouid acceue
to the union demands in a week or two. ,
The eompany. on the other hand,
ihowed i.o ligna of yieidmg yesterday,
and stated again the reports of tne;
number of men out ar.d of the efTect
on the company were untrue.
The Prudential Insurance Company
is.ued the following r.otice yesterday:
"Exaggerated repotis of ageney dia
tarbancei n the New Vorh diatriet are
causing the company no uneasines.
whatever. Many of the agents absent
day reported to-day. and no dini
calty ia beinBj expenenced in meetin?
the ;,. Ne policy intereata have
Deen | ?*> and the company is
taking ta business without the
least tn
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PLAYWRIGHT TULLY LET
OFF WITH REPRIMAND
Magistrate Warns Him to "Keep
Head in Future."
lichard Walton Tally, who arrote
"The Roae of tho Rancho" and "Omar,
tnf, Tl called *oroe one an
"old duffer" when he and Mrs. Tully
were rafaaed udmittance to Women's
Kight Court Monday. BecaUM it
couldnt bo determined just who the
"old duffer" waa he received a bur- ,
pended sentence when he wa* called to
answer a disorderly conduct charge be?
fore Bfag Btrata MrQnade yesterday.
Court Oflear Mienaal D. Murphy,
who ca??. ? ?'. the aathort arraal
clared Tully meant Magiatrate Harlow..
Bittirif Tllll>' confes.ed
he had raea t was a "duffer,
hut itTOl i'.v denied he had referred to
? '? such a BtTOl g
term. . " Ma* trata Mc<3
?
a easpended aentenca, with a warning
to kttp rour heail in the futurt."
"-"-* _ i
FIFTY NAVY YARD
WORKERS LAID OFF
They Fear Other Suspensions
Are to Follow.
Workmen of the navy yard are won
deririf; to-day whether there will be
anapi l - on a large seale within the
next few day.. Ye.terdav tifty wotk
? rs in the machmerv dlviaiofl were
dropped becauae, aa tha oflleara ex
jla.r.ed tl BO funds to 40B
tiaui thi 1 ere engagtd
on. Helpera, machin ta and p.peiutcis
are ajBOBg the trade. affected. The
officer. of the yard .a:d the .uspen
.ion. would be only temporary. The
men four that others arill be laid off.
Cntic.sm was directed against the
AdminiK'ration because of it. failure to
keep the yard .upplied with money aut
ficient to carry on the work. Bavaral
time. lately, it wa. learned, head. ot
departnn I ts had to make humed call*
on Waahington for money. If they hai
not ri pjaickly it would hav>'
meant that thoutand. of employes
would Lave gone for days without pay.
WANTS STEAK;ATTACKS
WIFE;G0EST0H0SPITAL
Neighbors Rally to Aid of
'LonKshoreman's Mate.
Fatrick O'Keefe, a jjiant long.hore
Dian, returned at 1 o'clock yeaterday
morning to hia home, 70 North Klev
enth Str.et, Williamabarg. con'umed j
w.th a 4 a bi
II. aci r lered Mrs J
('K<. '? U <?!' bed and prepare '
it for him
. i d. he '
dra,.v ? her hair. Hl r
?hbor., i
who ha uncon- ,
sciou
The '.*
had been locked UP at the police ?ta
tion, and had to be removed to the j
F-aiteru !>.. triat B | ....
WIStt ivmiv HUW4J11
AIWERTISEMHNT.
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